IBUS-FEP(1)

💖 IBUS-FEP 💖

okay bestie, we're in the ibus-fep(1) section of the General Commands Manual and it's giving terminal-glowup. sit down, grab a strawberry drink, and let's talk about input methods 🍓✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ibus-fep — the IBus client for text terminals. yes, the IBus energy, but make it tty 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ibus-fep [options] [-- command [args]]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. options first, then optionally a -- and whatever command + args you wanna run inside it. periodt 👑

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

ibus-fep is an IBus client for text terminals. that's the whole thing fr fr — it lets you do your IBus input-method thing inside a terminal, which is lowkey iconic if you type in a language that needs an IME and you live in xterm (we've all been there 🙈).

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you a lil summary of the options. the "help me bestie" button, use it whenever 💖
• -s, --preedit-style=STYLE — pick your input style. your choices are "root" or "over-the-spot", and the default is "over-the-spot", which shows the preedit text right at the cursor position ✨. if that's not your thing because it can overwrite the screen (😭 rude), switch to "root", which puts the preedit text down on the bottom line of the screen instead. no cap, that's the whole tradeoff 🦋

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

okay here's the lil demo reel, bestie:

$ pgrep -lf ibus-daemon

make sure that ibus-daemon is running 💅 (like, vibe check your daemon first)

$ unset XMODIFIERS

disable XIM ✨

$ xterm -e ibus-fep

run a default shell program under ibus-fep 🌸

$ xterm -e ibus-fep -- nano

run GNU nano instead of shell under ibus-fep 👑

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

fep(1), xterm(1) — go read those too, iykyk 📚

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

ibus-fep was written by Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>. absolute legend, we stan 🫶

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and that's the tea, bestie 🎀 this page came from the IBUS-FEP(1) manual, dated 10 Feb 2012, and if you ever forget any of it, just yell man ibus-fep at your terminal and it'll come running 💖 mwah 💅